Bowen was elected in 2014 by the Goucher College Board of Trustees to become the eleventh president of the college, succeeding Sanford J. Ungar.[8][2] During his tenure, Bowen has undertaken initiatives to redefine the school's admissions process to encourage greater diversity, reshape the curriculum, build upon the campus's infrastructure, and renovate and expand existing facilities.[9][10] In 2017, Bowen offered to forgo a salary increase and extended his contract with Goucher through June 2022.[11][12] In October 2018, Bowen announced that he would resign as president of Goucher on June 30, 2019.[13] He was succeeded by Kent Devereaux.[14]

Bowen served on the executive committee and as a track note writer for Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology.[15][17] He was also a founding board member of the National Recording Preservation Board for the Library of Congress.[18] Bowen has written more than 100 scholarly articles[19] and edited the 2003 Cambridge Companion to Conducting.[20] His book "Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning" was published in 2012,[21][22] and earned him the 2014 Frederic W. Ness Book Award.[23] In 2017, he co-authored the companion novel "Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes."[24]

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is an American virtuoso trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammy Awards and his Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He is the son of jazz musician Ellis Marsalis Jr. (pianist), grandson of Ellis Marsalis Sr., and brother of Branford (saxophonist), Delfeayo (trombonist), and Jason (drummer). Marsalis is the only musician to win a Grammy Award in jazz and classical during the same year.

David Baker (composer)

David Nathaniel Baker Jr. was an American jazz composer, conductor, and musician from Indianapolis, Indiana, as well as a professor of jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Baker is best known as an educator and founder of the jazz studies program. From 1991 to 2012, he was conductor and musical and artistic director for the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. He has more than 65 recordings, 70 books, and 400 articles to his credit.

Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private Methodist research university in University Park, Texas. SMU also operates satellite campuses in Plano, Texas and Taos, New Mexico.

Goucher College

Goucher College is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. The college was chartered in 1885 following a conference in Baltimore led by local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church, including John F. Goucher, for whom the school is named. It was formerly a women’s college until becoming coeducational in 1986. As of 2019, the school had around 1,450 undergraduates studying in 33 majors and six interdisciplinary fields and 700 graduate students. Goucher also grants professional certificates in areas including writing and education and offers a postbaccalaureate premedical program.

William G. Bowen

William Gordon Bowen was President Emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation where he served as President from 1988 to 2006. He was the president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988.

José Antonio Abreu

José Antonio Abreu Anselmi was a Venezuelan orchestra conductor, pianist, economist, educator, activist, and politician best known for his association with El Sistema. He was honored with the 2009 Latin Grammy Trustees Award, an honor given to people who have contributed to music by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.

George W. Bush Presidential Center

The George W. Bush Presidential Center, which opened on April 25, 2013, is a complex that includes President George W. Bush's presidential library and museum, the George W. Bush Policy Institute, and the offices of the George W. Bush Foundation. It is located on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in University Park, Texas, near Dallas. It will be the future resting place of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States (2001–2009), and his wife Laura Bush.

Sanford J. Ungar

Sanford J. "Sandy" Ungar is an American journalist, author, and the inaugural director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University. He was the tenth president of Goucher College and the 24th director of Voice of America.

Southern Methodist University Mustang Band

The Southern Methodist University Mustang Band, known as the "Best Dressed Band in the Land" because of its 32 unique uniforms, is the marching band of Southern Methodist University. Long known as “the Hub of SMU spirit,” the 80 member band represents the University at football and basketball games, produces the Pigskin Revue during Homecoming, and performs at special University- and community-related events. Founded in 1917, the Mustang Band is currently under the direction of Don Hopkins and assistant director and music arranger Tommy Tucker.

Kent Devereaux

Kent Devereaux is an American composer, director, academic administrator, and the 12th and current president of Goucher College. He was previously the president of the New Hampshire Institute of Art (NHIA) from 2015 to 2019.

Robert S. Welch

Robert Stephen Welch II was an American academic and college administrator who served as dean and later as interim president of Goucher College.

John B. Van Meter

John Blackford Van Meter was an American Methodist minister, educator, and the co-founder of Goucher College. Van Meter also served as the college's first dean and as acting president from 1911 to 1913.